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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much were tickets on Thomas Cook's first train tour?

2. What is the second quality of the pseudo-event described by Boorstin?

3. With whom did Thomas Cook form a partnership and rename the travel agency as Thomas Cook and Son?

4. In Chapter 1 - Section V, Boorstin discusses a change in the way people relate to truth and to what?

5. Boorstin suggests, in Chapter 1 - Section V, that the advances made in American society have served to "blur the edges of" what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the effect of the extravagant expectations held by Americans, according to Boorstin?

2. How does Boorstin describe pseudo-events in the political arena, in Chapter 1 - Section III? What examples does he offer?

3. How does Boorstin describe tourism in America in Chapter 3 - Section V?

4. What extravagant expectations does Boorstin assert consumes the American psyche?

5. What has eroded the old heroic form, according to Boorstin?

6. What did the advent of tourism do for the American traveler, according to Boorstin?

7. What argument is made regarding the objects on display in museums in Chapter 3 - Section IV?

8. What aspect of the pseudo-event does Boorstin explore in Chapter 1 - Section IV?

9. What does Boorstin write all tourist attractions share, in Chapter 3 - Section IV? What effect does this have on travelers?

10. How did Baedeker expand his publications? What was the "star system"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss Boorstin's distinction between "folk" and "mass" in the creation and recognition of heroes.

Essay Topic 2

Boorstin posits that there are two main "extravagant expectations" that Americans hold. What are these and what are examples of each?

Essay Topic 3

Who was Karl Baedeker? What advances did he make in the tourism industry? What were the effects?

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